Daliwa Joseph

Daliwa Joseph is the president of Mandela Washington Fellows Cameroon Association and executive director of Action for Youth and Environment,  a youth-led organization that intervenes in environmental protection, tourism, sustainable energy, quality education, and gender equality in the Northern regions of Cameroon. He recently completed his Ph.D. Research at the University of Columbia-Missouri, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering through the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Moreover, he was the first Cameroonian who completed an internship in 2017 at the United States Department of Agriculture and Rural Development-Columbia MO (USDA-RD). After this internship, he had the privilege of working as the Regional Advisory Board member of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, representing Cameroon and the Chad Republic. As a scientist and innovator, he is currently working for the Local Material Authority of Cameroon partner of the Ministry of scientific research and Innovation under a project funded by the European Union. In Cameroon, he has trained more than 50,000 jobless youth, students, unemployed women, and girls in generating income activities and various domains: Personal Development, Leadership, Business and Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).  In 2019, He was distinguished with a Gold Price after emerging first at an innovation competition at Doha Oasis in Qatar. He also happens to have obtained several grants, and some include the AIEF in 2018 alongside two other MW fellows, the Tony Elumelu Foundation for entrepreneurs in 2019, world connect (2019), reciprocal exchange (2019), and LINC grant in 2020. His strengths are determination, innovation, focus, open-mindedness, and multitasking. His hobbies are; traveling, reading bestsellers, listening to classical music, watching scientific documentaries, playing tennis and football.